#Staten Island ferry mate hurt breaking up boat brawl: lawsuit

All aboard … for a beatdown.

A Staten Island Ferry mate claims he was seriously hurt after he stepped into a three-person melee — because a city cop on board the boat wouldn’t.

Donovan Fairclough, 43, a mate for more than 13 years, wrecked his knee and back in October 2019 on the Andrew J. Barbieri, he claims in Brooklyn federal court papers, after trying to stop two people pummeling a woman on the ship’s saloon deck boarding area.

It’s unclear if anyone was arrested for the brawl.

The trio was trouble before they even got on board, claims Fairclough, who described them as “loud, belligerent, adversarial, combative and fighting with one another” at Whitehall Ferry Terminal.

It wasn’t exactly all hands on deck when the altercation unfolded, the mate says. An NYPD officer allegedly “failed and/or refused” to break up the fight and Fairclough ended up shoved, knocked backwards and “physically traumatized,” he charges in the litigation, which seeks unspecified damages from the city.

Fairclough went to the emergency room and eventually had surgery for his “significant” injuries, said his attorney, Paul Hofmann, who added the mate was later laid off.

The NYPD declined comment on the litigation.